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Instructions are never included. They vary with the strength of your ability to see, the measure of your selective blindness, the limits of your mercy, and the intensity of your desire.

Vera Nazarian

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Vera Nazarian
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 25
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Moscow
Russian SFSR
Never
Instruction
Intensity
Measure
Mercy
Instructions
Limits
Selective
Strength
Included
Ability
Vary
Desire
Blindness

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